First year MBA candidate Justine Lai shares key takeaways from her experience during the Wharton Social Impact Fellowship in the fall semester. Lai worked with social entrepreneurship accelerator FastFWD, a program launched by WSII, GoodCompany Ventures, and the City of Philadelphia. It’s estimated that nine out of ten startups fail; 42% of…Read More
Stephanie Kim, Wharton Social Impact Initiative’s Manager of Community Impact, walks through her process of developing, refining, and growing a fellowship program built with students in mind. “The Wharton Social Impact Initiative exists first and foremost because students demanded it.” WSII Managing Director Sherryl Kuhlman told me this my first day on…Read More
Wharton Social Impact Initiative is now recruiting for our 2014-2015 Social Impact Fellowship program! This year, you can look forward to 20+ projects spanning five major initiatives: Impact Africa, Impact Investing, Impact Philadelphia, Internal Strategy & Operations, and the new WSII Consulting Corps. We will be hiring more than 40 students…Read More
